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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?
2. In what year was Maurizio Pollini born?
3. In what year did Glenn Gould retire?
4. In what year did Isaac Albeniz go to San Francisco before returning to Europe?
5. Who was world exponent of ultra-avant-garde pianism because he could read the new printed notes that required playing simultaneously piano keyboard, sounding board and strings, tape recorder and kazoo?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Artur Schnabel and what was his expertise in music? How is Schnabel described?
2. How is the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff described by the author? Where was Sergei Rachmaninoff from?
3. How are Alfred Brendel and Maurizio Pollini described in Chapter XXXVII, Two Cult Figures?
4. When did Glenn Gould retire? What emotional disturbances did he suffer from?
5. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?
6. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut? What toll did it take on him?
7. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?
8. What advances and contributions did Glenn Gould bring to musical presentation?
9. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?
10. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the contrapuntal style of Johann Sebastian Bach. When was this style at its height in popularity? What replaced it?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the influences of Friedrich Chopin on romanticism, piano technique, and style. When was Chopin born? When did he debut? When did he die?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the biography and works of Ludwig van Beethoven. What advancements was Beethoven responsible for in the style and technique of piano and composition?
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